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    Ib Social and Cultural Anthropology:: A Study and Test Preparation Guide
    Ib Social and Cultural Anthropology:: A Study and Test Preparation Guide
    Ib Social and Cultural Anthropology:: A Study and Test Preparation Guide
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    Ib Social and Cultural Anthropology:: A Study and Test Preparation Guide

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    IB Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Study and Test Preparation Guide thoroughly prepares International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology students for the IB Social and Cultural Anthropology Internal and External Examinations. This book will be helpful for both Standard and Higher Level IB students, although the Higher Level Internal Assessment is not addressed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrown Walker Press (FL)
    Release dateApr 1, 2016
    ISBN9781627346115
    Ib Social and Cultural Anthropology:: A Study and Test Preparation Guide

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      Ib Social and Cultural Anthropology: - Pamela S. Haley

      IB SOCIAL AND

      CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

      IB SOCIAL AND

      CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

      A STUDY AND TEST PREPARATION GUIDE

      PAMELA S. HALEY, PH.D.

      BrownWalker Press

      Boca Raton

      IB Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Study and Test Preparation Guide

      Copyright © 2016 Pamela S. Haley

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher.

      BrownWalker Press

      Boca Raton, Florida • USA

      2016

      ISBN-10: 1-62734-605-8

      ISBN-13: 978-1-62734-605-4

      www.brownwalker.com

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

      CHAPTER 2: ETHNOGRAPHIES

      In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio

      The Riddle of Amish Culture

      Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society

      CHAPTER 3: INTERNAL ASSESSMENT

      Observation Report

      What to avoid in your observation

      Critique

      Limitations of the observation

      Criterion B: Description and analysis

      Criterion C: Focus, assumptions, and bias

      Criterion D: Critical reflection

      CHAPTER 4: PAPER 1

      Strategies to score high on Paper 1

      CHAPTER 5: PAPER 2

      Criterion A (Conceptual knowledge and analysis

      Criterion B (Use of ethnographic material)

      Criterion C (Comparisons)

      CHAPTER 6: THE IMPORTANCE OF WRITING

      Comparative Writing

      CHAPTER 7: FINAL THOUGHTS: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY IS MORE THAN A TEST!

      APPENDICES

      Appendix A: Sample Class Syllabus

      Appendix B: Internal Assessment Requirements

      Appendix C: Sample Internal Assessment Observation Report

      Appendix D: Internal Assessment Directions

      Appendix E: Internal Assessment Ethical Guidelines

      Appendix F: Critique Model

      Appendix G: Marks for Critique

      Appendix H: Critique Checklist

      Appendix I: Paper 2 Model Response for first essay

      CHAPTER 1

      INTRODUCTION

      I have taught standard level International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology (IBSCA) Standard Level for about 12 years. During those 12 years, only two students failed the exam, and that was in my first years. But through the years, I have studied every (well, many) aspects of social and cultural anthropology (SCA), and I plan to keep studying it until I draw my last breath.

      Unlike some disciplines, social and cultural anthropology is very easy to connect to our daily lives, because SCA is not just studying other cultures; it is about learning about all humanity, including ourselves. Specifically SCA explores how we think, judge, interpret, and analyze humanity. In a sense, we are all anthropologists. We all observe other people; we look for patterns; we compare one group to the other; some of us even record our observations in a journal or diary. And certified anthropologists do all of that, too. But the difference between the experienced and certified anthropologists and everyday anthropologists is that formally trained anthropologists make a conscious effort to rid themselves of biases, assumptions, and moral judgments when observing others. In addition, they often spend years studying a specific group. The study the history and past ethnographies. It is not uncommon, for example, for anthropologists to spend their entire academic careers studying one group or even subgroup of people. They learn the language, history, kinship patterns, and every aspect of the target culture. They live and work among their target populations and gather numerous informants who will teach them about the target culture. Yet, they would never proclaim that they are the expert on that people. They, instead, humbly admit that their study is merely a detailed cultural account at a specific time and place. No more, no less.

      Anthropologists may be a humble group readily admitting to biases and rejecting absolutist conclusions. On the other hand, the study of social and cultural anthropology can change your life, because it can deeply change your worldview. It can make you a keener observer by giving you the tools to observe people and human interactions from a more objective and analytical stance. It does this by training you to observe not only explicit culture, but the more elusive, and much more interesting, implicit culture. Social and cultural anthropologists are always looking for implicit culture perhaps even more so than explicit culture. Therefore, hopefully you will find yourself looking for more implicit cultural indicators such as gender relationships, power hierarchies, societal structures, inequalities, kinship relations, et cetera. Explicit culture is more "in your face’, so to speak. It is what the culture presents for us to see. For example, explicit culture would be marriage ceremonies and all the ritual and ceremony that go with them. Most American informants, for instance, could easily describe a traditional middle-class mainstream marriage ceremony where the bride wears a white dress and the groom a dark-colored tuxedo. But anthropologists look more for the implicit. They may ask why there is such a stark differentiation in the dress of the bride and groom especially on the wedding day. Even though women wear pants in everyday American attire, why on this particular day would a bride never wear pants, at least in the traditional heterosexual marriage practice? Why does the bride carry flowers and not the groom? What is the historical context behind the American wedding ritual? How did it evolve? Why is the male and female bodily presentation so starkly differentiated? What are the symbolic meanings of this performance? What about all the props, for example the flowers, the gifts, the church itself, the religious aspect, the performance roles? As you can see, I could go on and on. And that is what an anthropologist does. They look deeply into any human performance, whether it is a formal ritualistic performance like a wedding, or an informal one like a neighborhood gathering. All human interactions are interesting to curious anthropologists, especially the implicit, the questions or topics generally not discussed openly or not a part of the usual discourse. Implicit cultural displays are always ripe for anthropological investigations.

      One more final point about the importance of social and cultural anthropology. As briefly mentioned above, this subject has the potential to change your life, because it has the potential to change your worldview. Like most Americans, before I began studying SCA, I had a rather rigid and limited worldview. I am not proclaiming that today I have an infallible grasp on the world and its inhabitants. Far from it. But I have learned that the world is a

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